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“O YE peoples of the world! Know assuredly that My…” |
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O YE peoples of the world! Know assuredly that My
commandments are the lamps of My loving providence
among My servants, and the keys of My mercy for My
creatures. Thus hath it been sent down from the heaven of
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the Will of your Lord, the Lord of Revelation. Were any
man to taste the sweetness of the words which the lips of
the All-Merciful have willed to utter, he would, though
the treasures of the earth be in his possession, renounce
them one and all, that he might vindicate the truth of even
one of His commandments, shining above the Dayspring
of His bountiful care and loving-kindness.
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From My laws the sweet smelling savour of My garment
can be smelled, and by their aid the standards of victory will
be planted upon the highest peaks. The Tongue of My
power hath, from the heaven of My omnipotent glory,
addressed to My creation these words: ‘Observe My commandments,
for the love of My beauty.’ Happy is the lover
that hath inhaled the divine fragrance of his Best-Beloved
from these words, laden with the perfume of a grace which
no tongue can describe. By My life! He who hath drunk
the choice wine of fairness from the hands of My bountiful
favour, will circle around My commandments that shine
above the Dayspring of My creation.
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Whenever My laws appear like the sun in the heaven of
Mine utterance, they must be faithfully obeyed by all,
though My decree be such as to cause the heaven of every
religion to be cleft asunder. He doth what He pleaseth. He
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chooseth; and none may question His choice. Whatsoever
He, the Well-Beloved, ordaineth, the same is, verily, beloved.
To this He Who is the Lord of all creation beareth
Me witness. Whoso hath inhaled the sweet fragrance of the
All-Merciful, and recognized the Source of this utterance,
will welcome with his own eyes the shafts of the enemy,
that he may establish the truth of the laws of God amongst
men. Well is it with him that hath turned thereunto, and
apprehended the meaning of His decisive decree.
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